Caocao Emotional Aesthetic

Cao Cao's poems are famous for inherent enthusiasm about making progress and broad realms, and attract many generations of readers' and critics' attention. Due to the depositing orthodox ideas, many people have been criticizing his ambitions of making great achievements to put the country in order and administer it effectively. While reading his poems, people always acknowledge his contribution on uniting the separated country but doubt his moral quality; enjoying the happiness brought by appreciating his poems but do not give up questioning his soul coldly. It may be the first unjust case in the history of ancient Chinese literature. Previous studies are not ample. The thesis will have a deep study into this topic and find out evidence in order to return fairness to Cao Cao and his poems.Apart from the introduction, the thesis comprises four chapters.Chapter 1: Hero's sorrow. The beauty of sadness in his poems comes from his deep pity for the bitter reality, the hardness to realize his ideal, and his special family background.Chapter 2: Majestic emotion. The majesty of his poems is rooted in his powerful spirit, i.e., his unchanging ambitions of rescuing the society, his following the times' tendency on life's value and his special temperament.Chapter 3: Humanism. The humanism in his poems is mainly presented on his attention to people's living. The analysis is carried out from three aspects, including his pity for people's living conditions, care to soldier's distress and the desire to help those who are capable to make their latent energy come true.Chapter 4: Rationalism. It will explore the aesthetic feeling connotation in his poems of mystical excursion. The concrete contents are as following: exceeding the poems of mystical excursion of Qin and Han dynasties spiritedly; longing for living contention and rationally grasping life's value.The last part is the conclusion, which summarize the whole thesis and makes the writing motive clearer.